Petticoat.



No. 877,672. PATENTED JAN. 2a, 1908.

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APPLICATION I L D 6. 1907.

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No. 877,672. PAT'ENTED JAN.'28, 1908.

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LENA SITTIG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PETTICOAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 28, 1908.

Application filed July 6. 1907- Serial No. 382.422.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LENA SITTIG, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Petticoats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in an improvement in petticoats and has for its object to provide a petticoat with a continuous exterior pocket along its lower portion, the portion of the petticoat which forms the outer wall being unconnected to the skirt except by detachable supporting devices so arranged that the outer wall of the pocket may be suspended from the waistband of the petticoat or the waistband of the skirt of the wearer accord ing to whether the skirt is worn entirely exterior to the petticoat or partially protected within the same.

The present invention is an improvement upon the structures shown in Letters Patent of the United States No. 489103, granted to me January 3, 1893, and No. 520225, granted to me, May 22, 1894.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents my improved petticoat in perspective, Fig. 2 represents a skirt with my improved'petticoat applied thereto, the bottom. of the skirt being shown located within the petticoat pocket, Fig. 3 is a vertical cross section, through the petticoat, Fig. 4 is a detail view of the adjustable means for suspending the outer wall of the petticoat pocket, and Figs. 5 and 6 represent respectively in front and side elevation a form in which. the inner wall of the pocket extends upwardly in substantial conformity with the outer wall.

The skirt shown in Fig. 2 is denoted by 1, the waistband of the skirt by 2 and the bottom of the skirt by 3.

The waistband of my improved petticoat is denoted by 4, the petticoat proper by 5 and the outer wall of the pocket by 6. Straps 7 depend from the waistband 4 of the petticoat upon opposite sides thereof. These depending straps 7 are provided with eyes or loops 8 for the reception of hooks 9 carried by straps 10 permanently attached to the upper edge of the outer wall 6 of the pocket.

The petticoat and its pocket are worn under the skirt in ordinary conditions and the bottom of the petticoat may be held in different positions by the engagement of difierent sets of hooks 9 on the straps 10 with eyes or loops 8 on the depending straps 7.

When it is desired to protect the bottom of the skirt as from rain or mud, the upper edge of the outer wall 6 of the pocket is released from the depending straps 7 thus permitting the outer wall of the pocket to be dropped down into position to permit the lower portion of the skirt 1 to be inserted into the pocket. The outer wall 6 of the pocket is then drawn up over the lower portion of the skirt and the straps 10 leading from the upwardly projected portions of the outer wall of the pocket are attached to the waistband 2 of the skirt as shown in Fig. 2. It will thus be seen that a continuous pocket is formed entirely around the petticoat, the outer wall of the said pocket being unattached to the petticoat proper except along the lower edge thereof.

In the form shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the inner wall of the pocket which, in the forms hereinabove described, forms the petticoat proper, is cut away leaving the inner wall in substantial conformity with the outer wall of the pocket, the inner wall in this form being denoted by 11. In both forms, the pocket, as it appears when viewed from the front, presents the general appearance of a letter M, the outer Wall of the pocket extending upwardly at the sides of the skirt and downwardly in a graceful curve at the front and back thereby relieving the knees of the person wearing the petticoat from a clumsy and burdensome load, the outer wall of the pocket extending sufficiently low to bring its upper edge below the knees.

Vi hat I claim is 1. A petticoat having a continuous exterior pocket along its lower portion for the reception of a skirt and means engaging the upper edge of the pocket for supporting the same from the waistband of the petticoat or the skirt as may be required.

2. A petticoat having a continuous exterior pocket along its lower portion for the reception of a skirt, the outer wall of the pocket projecting upwardly at the sides and downwardly in curved format the front and presence of two Witnesses, this twenty-seventh back, and means for engaging the upwardly day of June, 1907.

rojecting portions at the sides for supportw T i ng the same from the Waistband of the petti- LELA SITTIG' 5 coat or the skirt, as may be required. WVitnesses:

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as F. GEORGE BARRY,

I my invention, 1 have signed my name in HENRY THIEME, 

